Phonic mixer update

[Gert van Santen]

paul.maddox.mail-list at synth.net schreef:
> Guys,
> 
>  Ok, took the mixer to the rehersal room last night and recorded some
> rough tracks as 'guide tracks' for recording.
> 
>  It went suprisingly well, I was impressed how he mixer 'just worked' as
> the audio interface (that's all it was used for in this instance).
> 
>  we had the following,
> 
> Drums, 9 mics (3 tom, bass, 2 snare, Left over head, right overhead and
> hi-hat)
> 1 mic on guitar cab,
> other guitar was DI'd through cab sim
> bass DI'd
> vocals taken from 'monitor out' of PA in the room.
> 
> 13 inputs in total.
> 
> The astute of you will note that I used 10 mics on a desk with only 8
> inputs. two of those mic's went through my Xenyx 1202 running as a simple
> mic pre and then into the phonic as line ins.
> 
> This was all fed into my wife's macbook (bottom of the range) which
> performed the job of recording superbly, despite it's megre 5400rpm 80g
> HDD and 1G of ram.
> 
> We listened back to the recording through the PA in the room whist packing
> up, sounded suprisingly good.
> 
> I've copied the logic sessions onto my powermac (dual G5 with 4G ram) and
> I'll be mixing it on this (as it should have more umph for plugins than
> the macbook).
> 
> Once it's all been recorded (we'll be redoing the lead and backing vocals
> in a quieter room) I'll post links to MP3s.
> 
> So far, I have to say, I'm really impressed wih this desk, it's done
> everything I've asked of it, and done it without fuss.

I love these exciting stories!

Looking forward to the mp3's.

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